[Milsurplus] Re: SCR-593, RS-6

[Marty Reynolds]

Hue, Ft. Monmouth 'insiders' called the '728 the 'gas rx'  So altho employed
for AA, pizen gas was supposedly it's 1st objective.

It's guessed that they like the BC-223 hardly ever went to the front.

Then along came the a Eisenhower era request for a '728 replacement!  This
wasl written up well in ER some time back

Ex-ranger's word was our 'advisers' carried lots of 'em into 'nam jungles
in early
60s & just tossed 'em rather than carry back.  They were an option to the
GRC-109
that most took since tiny fraction of weight.  They all 'talked' to a
Ranger R392 &
T195 in ONE secure place.  Always with wind-up code burst

Same guy sed Army's largest RS-6 concentration was unsued stash in Germany!

Lots that turned up here in Dixie were used for training probably @ Ft.
Jackson.  Tho
designed as expendables, many of these MARS babies have a green-white shop
sticker
that confounds 'saipan59 pete,' the neat spy radio fella.

I'm sure you know I shopped a complete set-up around ham-fests here on a
easle-mounted
backboard to turn up 'alumni.'  That's how I found 2 of the 3 I mentioned.
 (best p/o of exhibit
was 15w lamp that lit when teeny key pushed.  A kid pleaser.  BTW, exhibit
named 'cold war
qrp')

>
> Marty, Robert, did i remember to mail you a copy of that "Air Classics"
> article on "Operation
> Armageddon" ?  -Hue Miller


Mighty good stuff.  Imagine flying a DC-3 400 miles into eastern Europe &
aborting
a p-u 'cause bad choice for strip.   / TNX^2